Adolf Hitler’s Speech on Operation Barbarossa

With the world preoccupied by the war in Europe:

Stalin violated the Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact by invading Poland in 1939

Stalin violated the Soviet-Finnish Non-Aggression Pact by invading Finland in 1939

Stalin violated a provision of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact (Ribbentrop-Molotov) by invading Lithuania in 1940

Stalin grabbed a piece of eastern Romania in 1940

Hitler believed that Stalin, in secret collaboration with the British, was planning to totally break the Soviet-German Non Aggression Pact by launching a massive surprise attack upon anti-Communist Germany.

Millions of Soviet troops were quickly taken prisoner because they were packed along the front line, in OFFENSIVE positions. The Germans then advanced easily across undefended territory. There was so little defense behind the front lines because Stalin was planning an invasion of eastern Europe, NOT a defense of Russia.